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Against a backdrop of research suggesting that young women are still expected to engage in active risk management on a night out (Brooks, ‘Guys! Stop doing it!’: Young women’s adoption and rejection of safety advice when socializing in bars, pubs and clubs. British Journal of Criminology, 51(4), pp. 635–651, 2011), this chapter will explore the centrality of understanding of space and visibility to young women’s negotiations of risk and safety in mainstream bars and clubs in Newcastle’s NTE. Visibility comes into play in two distinct ways here—firstly, as in the previous chapter, participants drew on narratives of ‘fitting in’, this time to describe the types of venues that felt comfortable and safe to them. Attending a venue where they felt out of place or ‘different’ to other patrons could leave women feeling exposed, visible and vulnerable, and these spaces were positioned as risky and dangerous. Secondly, women recognised that bars and clubs are spaces where ‘everyday’ experiences of heterosexualised violence are trivialised and normalised, and they managed their dress and appearance in particular ways in order to position themselves as less visible—or even invisible—to try to avoid ‘unwanted attention’ and harassment.
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The term ‘Night-Time Economy’ was coined in the late twentieth century (Shaw 2014) in town planning circles, and increasingly used into the twenty-first century to describe the expanding number of pubs, bars and clubs concentrated in city centres and targeting predominantly 18–24-year-olds (Roberts 2006: 332). But what exactly is the Night-Time Economy, and what role does it play in the lives of young women today? How has it changed as a site of leisure, and what does it mean to say that neoliberal forces have played a role in shaping it? What do we mean by the supposed ‘feminisation’ of the NTE, and what are the implications of this process for the ways that women engage with these spaces? This chapter charts the development of the NTE in the UK and the rise of the ‘24-hour city’, highlighting the ways in which neoliberal ideals have shaped both the landscape of the NTE and the types of behaviours and consumption practices that are expected within it. Such considerations are important for research that attends both to the wider social structures within the NTE and the individual specificities of the lives of young people as they participate in it. I will then explore the significance of space and place in research focusing on the NTE, situating the current study geographically and exploring Newcastle’s own NTE in more depth and detail.